Limiting climate change to well below 2°C requires a major shift in investment patterns towards low-carbon, climate resilient options. Achieving this goal will require policies that involve unprecedented economic, social and technological transformation, as economies shift towards low-carbon and climate-resilient (LCR) infrastructure investments. OECD work on financing climate change action focuses on developing frameworks, tools and analysis to provide guidance to countries in this transition.

RELATED PROGRAMMES

• Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
• Climate finance: Research Collaborative

 

EVENTS AND REPORTS

The OECD is participating at the 2017 UN Climate Change Conference taking place from 6 to 17 November at the World Conference Center Bonn, in Germany. This year, the conference is convened under the Presidency of Fiji. Find out more on the OECD work on climate and the programme of COP23 side events:

• 4th OECD Green Investment Financing Forum as part of the Centre on Green Finance and Investment | 24-25 October 2017, OECD Paris
  
  
• Estimating Publicly-Mobilised Private Finance for Climate Action - Environment Working Paper - September 2017
• The government role in mobilising investment and innovation in renewable energy, OECD Investment Insights, August 2017
• What’s holding back investment and innovation in renewable energy? London School of Economics and Political Science, July 2017
• The Empirics of Enabling Investment and Innovation in Renewable Energy - Environment Working Paper - May 2017
  
  
• Green Talks Live: Green finance and investment | April 2017
  
  
• Report: Mobilising Bond Markets for a Low-Carbon Transition | April 2017
  
  

cfi database AND REPORTS

• Climate Fund Inventory (CFI) database, and Toolkit to Enhance Access to Adaptation Finance, in collaboration with the Global Environment Fund (GEF)
• OECD Clean Energy Investment Policy Review of Jordan, 2016
• Financing Climate Action in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, 2016

• Green Investment Banks: Scaling-up Private Investment in Low-carbon, Climate-Resilient Infrastructure, 2016
• Climate Finance in 2013-14 and the USD 100 billion Goal: A Report by the OECD in collaboration with Climate Policy Initiative, 2015
• Overcoming Barriers to International Investment in Clean Energy, 2015 
• Mapping Channels to Mobilise Institutional Investment in Sustainable Energy, 2015
• Policy Guidance for Investment in Clean Energy Infrastructure, 2015
• Breaking down barriers to clean energy trade and investment, BIORES, 2015
• Effective Carbon Prices 2013

 

POLICY PERSPECTIVES

Green bonds: Mobilising the debt capital markets for a low-carbon transition (PDF)	Green Investment Banks (PDF)
Mobilising private investment in sustainable transport (PDF)	Financing Climate Change Action (PDF)

POLICY HIGHLIGHTS

Mobilising investment in clean-energy infrastructure: What's happening (PDF)	Long-term investors and green infrastructure (PDF)

POLICY AND WORKING PAPERS

• Green Investment Banks: Innovative Public Financial Institutions Scaling up Private, Low-carbon Investment, 2017
• Assessing Options to Increase Climate Support, OECD/IEA Climate Change Expert Group Papers, 2015
• The Role of the 2015 Agreement in Mobilising Climate Finance, OECD/IEA Climate Change Expert Group Papers, 2014
• Scaling up and Replicating effective Climate Finance Interventions, OECD/IEA Climate Change Expert Group Papers, 2014
• Public Financial Institutions and the Low-carbon Transition: Five Case Studies on Low-Carbon Infrastructure and Project Investment, Environment Working Paper, 2014
• Exploring Potential Data Sources for Estimating Private Climate Finance, Environment Working Paper, 2014
• Institutional Investors and Green Infrastructure Investments - Selected Case Studies, OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions, 2013
• Comparing Definitions and Methods to Estimate Mobilised Climate Finance, OECD/IEA Climate Change Expert Group Papers, 2013
• Exploring Climate Finance Effectiveness, OECD/IEA Climate Change Expert Group Papers, 2013
• Mobilising Private Investment in Sustainable Transport: The Case of Land-Based Passenger Transport Infrastructure, Environment Working Paper, 2013
• Towards a Green Investment Policy Framework: The Case of Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Infrastructure, Environment Working Paper, 2012
• The Role of Institutional Investors in Financing Clean Energy, OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions, 2012
• Tracking Climate Finance: What and How?, OECD/IEA Climate Change Expert Group Papers, 2012

 

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Events

• 2017/06 Workshop on Key Institutions for Mobilising Finance, Mexico City
• 2017/02 OECD Roundtable on scaling up investment in low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure, OECD Paris
• 2016/11 OECD at #COP22, Marrakech, Morocco
• 2016/11 OECD Workshop on financing green infrastructure, OECD Paris
• 2016/10 3rd OECD Green Investment Financing Forum, Tokyo, Japan
• 2015/12 OECD at #COP21, Paris-Le Bourget
• 2015/12 COP21 side event: OECD and Bloomberg Green Bonds roundtable, Paris-Le Bourget
• 2015/12 COP21 side event: Green investment banks: Leveraging innovative public finance to scale up low-carbon investment, Paris-Le Bourget
• 2015/05 2nd OECD Green Investment Financing Forum, OECD Paris
• 2015/05 OECD Green Investment Bank Workshop, OECD Paris
• 2014/06 Inaugural OECD Green Investment Financing Forum, OECD, Paris
• 2013/12 Achieving a level playing field for international investment in solar and wind energy, OECD, Paris
• 2013/12 Partnership for Action on Climate Finance meeting, Busan,  Korea
• 2013/05 International Transport Forum, Leipzig
• 2013/03 CCXG Global Forum, OECD, Paris
• 2012/12 Securing Climate Finance and Investment to support Low-Carbon and Climate Resilient Growth (OECD side event at COP18), Doha
• 2012/09 Roundtable on Mobilising Private Investment in Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Infrastructure, Paris
  
  

blogs AND ARTICLES

• The government role in mobilising investment and innovation in renewable energy, OECD Investment Insights, August 2017
• What’s holding back investment and innovation in renewable energy? London School of Economics and Political Science, July 2017
• Can green bonds fuel the low-carbon transition? OECD Insights Blog, April 2017
• Sustainable energy infrastructure, finance and institutional investors, OECD Observer No 304, 2015
• Overcoming barriers to international investment in clean energy", OECD Insights Blog, 2015
• A clearer picture of climate-related finance, OECD Insights Blog, 2014
  
  
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Further reading

• OECD work on climate change
• Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG)
• Climate Change and Development
• Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
• Institutional Investors and Long-term Investment
• International Energy Agency and Climate Change
• Investment and Climate Change
• Investment for Green Growth
• Statistics on climate-related development finance
• Tracking private climate finance: Research Collaborative

 

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